The Prats on our roads.

[GT98]

Originally posted by RichL


I did hear a report that the majority of the world are Right-eye dominant - ie your right eye does the main focusing and imaging, while your left fills in the bits for 3d.
Therefore, if you drive on the left, your best eye is facing oncoming traffic.

Hmm thats pretty interesting since if you where glasses, contacts ,etc your "weaker" eye is your Domnate eye. I'm right handed and my left eye is "weaker" compaired to my right. Reason I remember this is when I was going through basic training we had Basic Rifle Marksmanship and they had us hold our hands out holding a flat piece of wood with a hole in the middle of it and you would pull to what ever side was your dominate eye when trying to look though it. Then they wanted me to shoot left handed which was a big distaster! That lasted one magazine or so!

Scott

[The PIT]

I'm buggered then as I've got a growth on back of my right iris which messes my eyesight up. It's not growing though but my eyesight isn't what it used to be.

No the problem is that people don't think how their actions may effect themselfs and others. It's a lack of commonsense and a case of selfishness.

[The PIT]

Theres also a lot of idiot motorcyclists around as well. If you take everyone on the road as an idoit your doing all all right and nothing will surprise you.

[RichL]

My sympathy for the plight of motorcyclists is tinged by the number of nutters I run across (not literally) who seem to think that turning on their headlight makes them invunerable.

When you're doing 70mph on a dual carriageway, the space between you and the cars around you gradually getting smaller and smaller, and you're trying to look for a gap so you can get in the lane you need to be in to turn off three miles down the road, whilst at the same time keeping an eye on the car in front and the cars in front of him to give you early warning, its most disconcerting to have some butthead motorcyclist go weaving between cars up the inside of you at 90mph, his headlight blinding anyone who catches a glimspe in their mirrors.

One idiot who I almost wish I had knocked over - I was passing a line of slow moving traffic, and I'd just got past the last one when a pair of bikers appear in my rear view mirror at high speed. I started indicating to pull over out of their way, but had to stay where I was for a few extra seconds so I didnt cut up the cars I'd just overtaken.
What does Evil Kinevil do? Soon as there is a gap he goes shooting up the inside of me, just as I start to drift into that lane, forcing me to brake and swerve.

Ergo, motorcylists only get my vote half the time.

PS - Once I met a motorcylist who was sitting on the white line between lanes overtaking a car on the inside who was going about 1mph slower than him.
He got really upset when I overtook both of them going 15mph faster

[Lizzard[MPE]]

i live a 1/2 mile from work.. and i refuse to get a bike or walk in fear of getting ran over

[Lizzard[MPE]]

my ex-boyfriend and i lived in Florida 2 years ago. one afternoon we took a nice drive down the coast about 30 miles to his bosses house in Dania. we stayed there longer than expected and we were just wanting to get back to boca so we hopped on I-95 about 7pm.... *this was a mistake*... if you drive on this interstate you do 90 mph or above or you get ran over. so in his Honda Shadow we were riding about 75 mph.. and people were zooming by and cutting right in front of us about 110-115.. it was one of the worst experiences ever! i was hoping we wouldn't die the whole time.. and it that wasnt enough i was so tense my feet fell asleep both of them!! haha i was like.. "ummm.. bry.. i think i might fall off if you don't pull off the road."